I'm glad that someone made a new response to this, because I had forgotten all about it. I made some cookie cakes back in September, and forgot to post a pic. But I just did. I really love these things but I think that if I did them again, I would make thinner cookies and use fondant instead of royal icing because it would go so much faster. I only made 30 of these, but it took a long time!

Hi all, I've been asked to make these for wedding favors and don't have a clue as to how to price them with box and ribbon. I was thinking $4.00 each, is that too low, too high??? The wedding is in 3 weeks and I need to get cracking, but they need a price.

Any help is appreciated!!! They are so cute I can't wait to make them.Cindra

Cindra, $4.00 each seems a little low to me but then again I haven't priced the boxes and ribbon. Just make sure it's priced fairly for you. In looking at them I was thinking they should go for about $5.00 each but that is just from looking at the cookie and packaging itself without much else to go on. They are really unique, aren' they?

toomuchcake, LOVE LOVE your cookie cakes, absolutely adorable!!! I am having a birthday party where each child decorates their own cake, do you think that I could make one of these for a thank you and happy bday to the 12 year old girl? I could maybe color the cookie hot pink and do lime green flowers? Would it look too weddingish?

Beautiful cookie-cakes, TooMuchCake. I prefer yours over M. Stewart's. These could be so much fun to experiment with. I'm doing a b-d party Friday and might just see about adding some of these to the table setting.

Toomuchcake - your cookie cakes are absolutely adorable!!! I had someone ask me about doing those for a 50th anniversary, but I was worried the cost would be too high (had no clue what to charge), but she went with a themed cookie instead and was quite happy. If anyone does ask again, do you mind telling me what you charge and the size of the bottom cookie? I saw someone say $4 or $5, but that was not in reference to your beautiful work. That amount seens awfully low. Do you mind giving us a rough idea?

Thanks, Bettinashoe! That makes me feel good! (I lived in Bartlesville very briefly when I was a kid.)

Cindra, the bride spent over $1k on her wedding desserts, so I gave her a discount on the cookies and she bought her own ribbons and boxes. She paid (if I remember correctly) about 85 or 90 cents for each box/ribbon combo, and I charged her way too little at $3.00 for the cookies and putting them in the boxes for her. So, she spent around $4/set. I agree with whoever told you to charge closer to $5/set. It's a lot of cookies, so the customers will get a lot of dessert for that money, too.

Thanks, Tracy! The sizes of the cookies I used is in the second paragraph of the article on Caked Alaska, but to put it here for easy reference it's 2.75", 2" and 1.25". I rolled the dough 3/16 thick, using dowels as a thickness guide.

You're welcome; I hope I helped some. The main thing I can suggest at this point is to not make the icing too thick - either on the cookies or when you glue them together. Especially when you glue them together, really. You can use your cookie cutter to keep the cookies aligned if you put the first cookie inside the cutter, add a small bit of icing in the middle of the bottom cookie, put the next cookie on top inside the cutter, then repeat. I assembled all the large ones first and let them dry before adding the next sizes on top of them.

I made 70 of these for my sister's bridal shower about 2 years ago. I would love to have the opportunity to try these again, now that I've been making cookies a little while. I think they would come out so much better. I used the NFSC recipe and they spread a little, leaving them not uniform/crisp like the one's in Martha's picture. Everyone thought they were great, even if they weren't up to my expectations.

If I remember correctly, I purchased the boxes from www.papermart.com. I used cardstock (scrapbook section of Michael's)cut into squares to line the bottom of the boxes. You may also want to make 1 sample cookie cake to determine what size box you should get.

You may have already thought of this but: put a dab of royal icing on the underside of the very bottom cookie - this will keep it from sliding around in the box.

Just a word of warning - I practiced making these a few weeks ago and I guess my dough was not chilled enough before I baked the cookies and when I took them out of the oven some of them spread and were uneven so my little cake looked very lop-sided.

Indydebi talks about recutting her cookies right out of the oven to get the shape perfect. That would help on having them all the same.